KOLKATA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused Bengal’s governing party of “playing a new game” in Sandeshkhali, saying “Trinamool’s goons are intimidating the women who had lodged complaints”.
Making a strong pitch to consolidate Hindu votes, Modi said: “They (TMC) are doing it only because the name of the accused person is Sheikh Shahjahan. TMC is still batting for him.” Addressing four election rallies in the state — one each in Barrackpore and Howrah, apart from two in Hooghly — Modi accused the Bengal police of trying to save Sandeshkhali’s tormentors.He said that after CBI arrested Shahjahan, bombs and arms were recovered from his house. “Now, TMC is busy giving him a clean chit. There was a time when Bengal waged war against infiltrators; now, they are being protected.”
The PM’s attack on TMC comes in the backdrop of two ‘survivors’ from Sandeshkhali denying the rape charges. One of them disclosed that she was egged on by BJP leaders to sign on a blank paper. This prompted TMC to allege that the Sandeshkhali issue was a BJP narrative.
Modi blamed TMC for its “appeasement politics” to claim that Hindus had become “second-class citizens” in Bengal, even becoming “the minority” at many places in the state. Chanting “Jai Shri Ram” to cheering crowds, the PM said: “TMC does not even allow you to take Ram’s name. They don’t allow you to perform Ram Navami here… They would even prefer to drop the word ‘Ram’ from Raja Rammohan Roy’s name.”
PM tried to tie TMC’s alleged appeasement to INDIA bloc’s “negligence of SCs, STs and OBCs”, vowing five guarantees. “As long as I am here, there will be no religion-based reservation. As long as I am here, no one can finish SC, ST and OBC reservation. As long as I am here, no one can stop you from worshipping Lord Ram and celebrating Ram Navami. As long as I am here, no one can overturn Supreme Court’s judgment on Ram temple. As long as I am here, no one will be able to abolish CAA,” he said at the Barrackpore rally.
Taking a dig at TMC for its barb that BJP is a party of “bahiragata (outsiders)”, he said: “They refer to the people from other states as ‘bahiragata’, but allow infiltrators. They can go to any extent to please their vote bank.”
Making a strong pitch to consolidate Hindu votes, Modi said: “They (TMC) are doing it only because the name of the accused person is Sheikh Shahjahan. TMC is still batting for him.” Addressing four election rallies in the state — one each in Barrackpore and Howrah, apart from two in Hooghly — Modi accused the Bengal police of trying to save Sandeshkhali’s tormentors.He said that after CBI arrested Shahjahan, bombs and arms were recovered from his house. “Now, TMC is busy giving him a clean chit. There was a time when Bengal waged war against infiltrators; now, they are being protected.”
The PM’s attack on TMC comes in the backdrop of two ‘survivors’ from Sandeshkhali denying the rape charges. One of them disclosed that she was egged on by BJP leaders to sign on a blank paper. This prompted TMC to allege that the Sandeshkhali issue was a BJP narrative.
Modi blamed TMC for its “appeasement politics” to claim that Hindus had become “second-class citizens” in Bengal, even becoming “the minority” at many places in the state. Chanting “Jai Shri Ram” to cheering crowds, the PM said: “TMC does not even allow you to take Ram’s name. They don’t allow you to perform Ram Navami here… They would even prefer to drop the word ‘Ram’ from Raja Rammohan Roy’s name.”
PM tried to tie TMC’s alleged appeasement to INDIA bloc’s “negligence of SCs, STs and OBCs”, vowing five guarantees. “As long as I am here, there will be no religion-based reservation. As long as I am here, no one can finish SC, ST and OBC reservation. As long as I am here, no one can stop you from worshipping Lord Ram and celebrating Ram Navami. As long as I am here, no one can overturn Supreme Court’s judgment on Ram temple. As long as I am here, no one will be able to abolish CAA,” he said at the Barrackpore rally.
Taking a dig at TMC for its barb that BJP is a party of “bahiragata (outsiders)”, he said: “They refer to the people from other states as ‘bahiragata’, but allow infiltrators. They can go to any extent to please their vote bank.”